May 25, 2012, at the invitation of Professor Zhu Donghua, Professor Philip Shapira, University of Manchester, UK, Associate Professor Jan Youtie, Georgia Institute of Technology, were appointed Adjunct Professor of the School of Management and Economics. Professor Zhu Donghua, Professor Wang Zhaohua, Associate Professor Wang Xuefeng and some students attended the appointment ceremony. Professor Zhu Donghua and Professor Wang Zhaohua presented letters of appointment to the two experts respectively. The appointment was of great significance in strengthening our international scientific and technological cooperation, improving level of education, and integration of international research resources.

　　After the appointment ceremony, professor Philip Shapira and Associate Professor Jan Youtie gave an academic report entitled "Emergence of Distributed Technology, Assessment: From OTA to the Center for Nanotechnology in Society" and "Research, collaboration and student publishing”, respectively.  
Expert Profile:
　　Philip Shapira, PhD., Professor of the University of Manchester Business School, Director of the Technology and Innovation Policy Research Center, and Adjunct Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Institute of Technology. His main research interests are innovation management and innovation policy, technology policy, economic and regional development, industrial competitiveness, technological trajectories and assessment. Professor Philip Shapira has served in the U.S. Congress and other leading international institutions. Editor-in-chief or editorial board member of several international journals. Participation in more than 50 research projects, and a number of researches won the United States national awards. Published 50 books and more than 200 papers. He is an authority figure in the field of innovation management and innovation policy.
　　Dr. Jan Youtie, Research Associate at Georgia Tech Economic Development Research Center, Associate Professor of the School of Public Policy. Her main research directions are emerging technology assessment, innovation and knowledge measurement, technology-based economic development, and manufacturing competitiveness. She is a specialist reviewer for several international journals, and has presided or participated in more than 30 projects, published 10monographs, more than 30 papers. Her article "coordination of industrial modernization services: the U.S. manufacturing sector to expand the partnership” has won the U.S. Lang Rosen Outstanding Paper Gold Award.